RE: FN-FORUM New iMac

date posted 9th January 2002 17:56

Actually I have used Macs and I think there are top end Macs that are
extemely good. I trained on Mac Classics and Quadras some years ago, and
also have a Mac emulator on my PC so I'm not totally against them, it used
to be a very neat system. There are aspects of the OS and OS X that are
quite nice. But generally I have found Imacs to be very limited, also the
new OS seems untidy and cluttered (worse than Windows XP) particularly on
what is usually a very small integral screen (closed architecture integral
and non upgradable), saying that do shop assistants really know anything
about computers?

I suppose really being realistic though I think the Imac is a bit of a Robin
Reliant of a computer or even a Bond bug (that had style). There is a market
for quirky plastic things one can drive on a Motirbike licence no doubt but
most people go for 4 wheels or an all terrain vehicle even ;) This isn't to
say that some Macs have 4 wheels to, always remember the Reliant Scimitar ;)

Nick

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Subject: RE: FN-FORUM New iMac


On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Nicholas Berry wrote:

> It's a nice monitor but it would still work better attached to a PC.
>
> Imacs are clunky, slow, overpriced, I recently went to PC world with a
> friend who wanted to buy a new computer. The best Imacs available were
> 500mhz machines LOL and to be honest seem a joke compared to my 1.6 ghz P4

I do hope you weren't attempting to compare the two solely on the basis of
clock speed; that way leads to madness. ;-)

As it happens, I do believe that Mac (along with Amiga, SGI, old/high-end
Sun and every other proprietary architecture) is overpriced for the
performance it offers. That's the price you pay (along with less choice) for
having hardware that, generally speaking, works first time and stays
working for ages.

If you've only ever used x86 PCs, you probably won't appreciate it, but the
compatibility and reliability of PeeCee hardware is, and always has been,
truly lousy.

But that's what the market has chosen.

> Nick

Best Regards,
Alex. ("Good, Fast, Cheap; pick any two" as the saying goes...)
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